evilstevie @evilstevie@mastod1.ddns.net

Twenty five years ago today I started the #Safari and #WebKit projects at #Apple Computer.

Which means Safari is now old enough to rent itself a car. But let's not speculate about my age.

I'm still sad I can't use Safari on my Windows PC. Alas, I lost the battle to keep it there. But at least WebKit's DNA seeded or influenced most browsers we use today.

And I'm proud of that impact. Along with the wonderful team I built who made it all happen. Here's to another 25, friends.

Cheers. 🥂😊💖

If you've got an opinion you want on here - submit it to the form: https://forms.gle/1gNMupaNHQf8xeRE6

#photography #streetphotography

@cararemixed 🥰

I take your "browsing the web in text mode on a pomera" and raise to "using the fediverse on a toshiba libretto 50ct running MS-DOS" 🤣

https://mastodon.social/@dec_hl/110707509125195040

"if you want to be a good developer, hone your curiosity" This Friday I am hosting Werner Vogels, the CTO of Amazon on my Podcast "Coffee With Developers". What should I ask him? The best question gets a VIP ticket for https://wearedevelopers.us, others can use "ilovebacon" for 50% off!

https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100214-20-years-of-solving-unsolvable-problems

Phew! Thank goodness.

Ah so my dream has a name. #solarpunk

This AI doomerism is completely misplaced. I hate AI. In its current form it’s inherently unethical. But I’m not afraid that it becomes conscious and wants to kill us all. What I am afraid of is that my doctor’s office is replacing the receptionist with AI and I can’t get through to a human when I need it most.

I need to find more GenZ and/or queer/trans folks to follow on Mastodon. Especially looking for more mutuals tbh. It would be nice to make some more actual friends on Fedi.

Everyone should boost this to help me make more mutuals.

And come follow me if you fit either of those descriptions!

Our AI agent went rogue and unplugged itself

STOP DOING SWAP PARTITIONS

HARD DRIVES WERE NOT SUPPOSED TO ACT LIKE RAM

YEARS OF LINUX SYSADMINNING yet NO REAL-WORLD USE FOUND for going beyond CLOSING A FEW TABS

Wanted to avoid the OOM killer anyway for a laugh? We had a tool for that: It was called ZRAM

"Yes please give me a dedicated 64GB logical volume of SWAP. Please give me unresizable block devices trapped at the end of my disk." - STATEMENTS DREAMED UP BY THE UTTERLY DERANGED

LOOK at what Neckbeards have been demanding your Respect for all this time, with all the fdisk and GParted Live USBs we built for them. (This is REAL PARTITIONING, done by REAL LINUX USERS):

# mkswap /dev/nvme0n1p3
# echo /dev/nvme0n1p3 none swap sw 0 0 >> /etc/fstab
# swapon -a

"Hello I would like to torture my SSD's FTL because I left three Electron apps open."

They have played us for absolute fools.

#linux #sysadmin

A few people have asked whether books will be available at these shows - and the answer is yes, for each show there will be a local bookseller and I’ll sign books at the end of the night (should you want me to, that is).

Tickets here: https://brianbilston.com/events/

I still lurk on the r/London subreddit and came across this hilarious piece of activist art which turns a bin into a "smart glasses amnesty bin" that apparently is just across the Ray Ban store. 💅

https://www.reddit.com/r/london/comments/1wdqum6/outside_ray_ban_covent_garden/

#pervertglasses

countdown to cloudflare going out of business?

https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/10/anthropic-reveals-rogue-ai-agents-hate-captchas-just-like-you/

Sickened by the blackshirted "patriots" targetting the RNLI, an organisation of volunteers who risk their own safety to save the lives of anyone in need on the seas, prompted me to donate to the RNLI
https://rnli.org/support-us/give-money/donate

Some spread hatred and division, others see no distinction by ethnicity, just lives to be saved. I know what side I back. Also, fuck the fascists.

#RNLI

Today’s offering is an attempt to write a poem in real time while on a train journey.